John-John, We Hardly Knew Ye

[David Horne]

At 07:35 AM 7/19/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>At 16:05 19/07/99 -0500, Steve Perry wrote:
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>>When he was just three years old, he stepped from a crowd and saluted
>>his father's passing casket in front of national television cameras. 
>>Thirty-five anticlimactic years followed.
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>Mother anxious that he should not fly to protect him from the curse. He
>waited until her death from cancer to take up flying, including on moonless
>nights. 
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>Yes, the ingredients are there, as with Diana, for a sort of sexualised
>angst - is there some theme of the Kennedys having to prove an image of
>masculinity to dangerous lengths, whether publicly virtuous or privately
>smutty. 
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>Whether taking the decision that mankind will take a giant step to the
>moon, or make a small flight over water without the help of moonlight.
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>All states need their stars to bind them together (something that marxists
>forget in theory and remember in practice). 
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>Is there going to be national mourning in the US as big as that in the UK
>with Diana? Will its meaning be the same?  The People's Prince???
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>Chris Burford
>
>London

Very likely. My sympathies are reserved for the two women he probably
killed. Otherwise my immediate reaction is to spit up.

David Horne
Vancouver BC Canada
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